In my previous article on Get and Display Hard Disk Space Usage Using PHP i demonstrated how you can fetch and display the size of a hard disk as well as the free space and used space. While this works while it still doesn’t show how to get the size of a specific folder using [...]
As most webmasters will know, if your website is doing, clients are going to be knocking on your door with pitchforks and torches. Here is a script that allows you to monitor remote ports on a server to make sure that the required services are running such as Apache (port 80), FTP (port 21), SSH [...]
In PHP there is a great function for converting a PHP Array into a string (and visa versa) using the function implode() as well as the array_keys() function to fetch the keys of the array. Combining these two functions, we can easily convert the keys of an array into a string. Note that as this [...]
If you want to run a PHP script in the background and allow it complete in its own time they you will need to override the default abort signal that is sent to a php script when you hit the escape key on your browser or by hitting the stop button. Say for example you [...]
Whenever you need to determine the mime-type of a file you should generally look at the file extension. Below is a pretty straight forward function that will return the mime-type of a file based on its file extension. Note! this is not a guaranteed way to determine the mime-type since people can easily fake the [...]
Below is a list of mime-types I come across most often. Suggest others that should be a part of the list by leaving a comment below. You can also view my article on finding the mime-type of a file by check out my article on PHP Function To Get File Mime Type. Text PHP – [...]
In apache, the file type will usually determine how the file is handled when viewing a website in our browser. For example, images, css, javascript, php, html (and other types) files are executed and displayed within the browser whereas PDF, ZIP, EXE and other unknown file types will be downloaded by the browser. Usually this [...]
In this short post, you will find a PHP function that has got to be the quickest way to convert bytes into an easier to read format of kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes and petabytes. The PHP filesize convert function takes the number (as bytes) passed to it and will convert it into an easier to read [...]
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